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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” - Chapter 1
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” - Chapter 6
“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” - Chapter 60
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.” - Chapter 5
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackery
"The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.” - Chapter 2
“If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.” - Chapter 19
“Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?” - Chapter 6
“The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.” - Chapter 64
The Railway Children
by E. Nesbit
"Everything has an end, and you get to it if you only keep all on."
"She had the power of silent sympathy. That sounds rather dull, I know, but it's not so dull as it sounds. It just means that a person is able to know that you are unhappy, and to love you extra on that account, without bothering you by telling you all the time how sorry she is for you.”
“Girls are just as clever as boys, and don’t you forget it!”
“It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done.”
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
“Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.” - Chapter 37
“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.” - Chapter 34
“The blessing was from a young child's lips, but it was the first that Oliver had ever heard invoked upon his head; and through all the struggles and sufferings, and troubles and changes, of his after life, he never once forgot it.” - Chapter 7
“Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.” - Chapter 13
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” - Chapter 23
“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you...it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!” - Chapter 23
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” - Chapter 27
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.” - Chapter 34
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" - Chapter 10
“No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?” - Chapter 5
“Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.” - Chapter 5
“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.” - Chapter 6
Danny, the Champion of the World
by Roald Dahl
“A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY.” - Chapter 22
“I will not pretend I wasn't petrified. I was. But mixed in with the awful fear was a glorious feeling of excitement. Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't.” - Chapter 7
“You will learn as you get older, just as I learned that autumn, that no father is perfect.” - Chapter 4
“This was the moment of danger, the biggest thrill of all.” - Chapter 14
Matilda
by Roald Dahl
“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.” - Mr. Wormwood the Great Car Dealer
“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.” - The Reader of Books
“Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.”
“The books transported her into new worlds...She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.” - The Reader of Books
Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell
"I say, that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody’s business to interfere when they see it.”
- Chapter 20
“If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.” - Chapter 36
“If we could act a little more according to common sense, and a good deal less according to fashion, we should find many things work easier;” - Chapter 11
Remember, we shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be toward man or toward beast." - Chapter 11
“What right had they to make me suffer like that?” - Chapter 8
“They do not suffer less because they have no words." - Chapter 46
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!” - Chapter 3
“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”
- Chapter 36
“It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.” - Chapter 16
“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.” - Chapter 46
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
"The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope."- Chapter 73
"Here is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more"- Chapter 117
“We must have felt what it is to die...that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living."- Chapter 117
"When we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.”
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
“Once you know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Chapter 28
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” - Chapter 2
“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.” - Chapter 12
“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” - Chapter 28